To:L. D. TROTSKY, G. Y. ZINOVIEV, N. I. BUKHARIN AND K. B. RADEK[1]

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ComradesTrotsky, Zinoviev,BukharinandRadek

Ihave read the document which you have sent me,
namely, the draft in German entitled “Outline of Agrarian
Action Programme”, compiled mainly by Varga and
approved by the commission, and I very much hesitate to
support it. I feel that the draft gives virtually nothing new
in comparison with the resolution of the Second Congress
of the Comintern on the agrarian question. I very much
fear that some formulations, diverging, perhaps even
accidentally, from the Second Congress resolution, may causemisunderstanding and breed artificial talk about a
discrepancy between this draft and the Second Congress
resolution. There also seems to be a distinct element which
weakens what was said there about supporting the peasant
movement, and which is capable of producing some
dissent between the needy peasantry and the rural proletariat.

Iam unable to go into this question in greater detail
and make a sentence-by-sentence collation between Varga’s
draft resolution which you have sent in and the Second
Congress resolution. I consider it necessary to warn that
we should not let ourselves accumulate numerous
resolutions on one and the same question which are capable of
producing misunderstanding and confusion.

Asa minimum, I would propose:

1)Tocollate the new resolution with the Second
Congress resolution sentence by sentence.

2)Togive the new resolution the character of something
like a partial commentary.

Ipersonally feel that the new resolution is of very
doubtful
value.[2]

[1]Writtenafter a reading of the draft resolution of the Fourth
Congress of the Comintern, “Outline of Agrarian Action Programme”,
which had been sent him. In a covering letter G. Y.
Zinoviev wrote that he felt that he could not submit the draft for
discussion by the congress without Lenin’s comment.

[2]Inaccordance with Lenin’s suggestions, the draft resolution of
the Fourth Congress of the Comintern on the agrarian question
was rewritten, in his report to the congress on November 30,
Y. S. Varga set out the content of the letter here published and
said that the commission elected to complete the draft “was
guided in its work above all by Comrade Lenin’s letter”. Changes were
introduced into the “Outline of Agrarian Action Programme”,
the most important of these being the addition of a subtitle,
“Instructions on the Application of the Agrarian Theses of the Second
Congress of the Communist International”, which specified the
nature of the resolution (seeBulletin IV kongressa
Kommunisticheskogo Internatsionala, No. 27, 1922, pp. 11–12).